Early Wonder, pink or red?

[bcday]

Has anyone had the Early Wonder from TGS produce deep scarlet fruit?

The description in the TGS catalog says "round, dark pink tomatoes with an average weight of 6 ounces". The seeds I got from TGS did produce round pink fruit (and the skin was clear, not yellow). Some fruits were 6 oz., but the overall average was a little less than that.

I listed Early Wonder with SSE last year as "Tomato, Pink/purple" and described it as pink. But my listing showed up in the Red section along with one from Glenn Drowns, who said it's deep scarlet. Glenn didn't say what his source of seed was.

Does anyone know for sure whether TGS's Early Wonder is the same as or different from Sand Hill's (which I bet is the old Burgess one)?

All of the forum posts I've seen say the TGS Early Wonder is light pink, dark pink, pink-red, or just pink. No red ones mentioned so far, let alone deep scarlet.

So has anyone here had a deep scarlet one show up from TGS?

[cecilsgarden1958]

Not red for me. Early Wonder from TGS was a light-medium pink depending on you color perception. Definitely never in the red range at all.

CECIL

[seeker]

Same here. My TGS Early Wonders have always been pink. BTW, they were incredibly good last summer. Not only were they truly delicious, they also produced extremely well all summer, and the plants stayed healthy the whole time. As an added bonus, I got no BER on either of my container-grown Early Wonders. A "must grow" for me from now on.

Paula

[carolyn137]

I happen to be in touch with bcday about some other tomato stuff and told her that I'd done a bit of background checking at NCSU as well as some of the back SSE Yearbooks.

EW should be RED.

It was released by the Burgess Co in 1950 and at NCSU it said it was just about the same as Victor, which was the result of a cross between my fave Break O Day and Allred.

And almost ALL the listings for EW in the Yearbooks are for RED. The same is true if you Google EW.

I think what's happened is that there has been an epidermis mutation somewhere, from yellow ( red fruits) to clear ( pink fruits) and that pink one has been perpetuated by some folks.

If so, and I'm betting on it, then the variety is just a different color and all else should be the same.

I never list wrong colors for varieties when I know what the original color should be.

I have pink versions of both Cuostralee and Great Divide and have not distributed them or listed them, and won't.

But it's your choice bc.

[Fert1]

Interesting ... it's always been pink when I've grown it, or what I thought was it. It has varied from a pale pink to a very dark pink that is almost a red. Both times it's been very prolific, but it was not as tasty the second time around. Although nothing I grew tasted right to me this summer. Even my Cherokee Purples and Rose tomatoes were on the bland side compared to how they usually are.